Re: Unloading sequence of GTK

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 10:07 -0800, Dave Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:10:24AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > (*) Basically, it's impossible for GObject to know when a type is no
> >     longer in use, because we don't have garbage collection in C.
> >     So, if you unload and reload GTK+ again, referencing the
> >     type "GtkButton" is going to try to create a  button object from 
> >     the last copy of the GTK+ libraries.
> 
> well, if GTypes weren't permanent, there could be a g_type_ref(),
> g_type_unref(), and g_type_unregister()...  gtk_unload() could call
> g_type_unregister() on all the common types.
> 
> (actually, that might allow for a non-global type-context,
> which i've occasionally wanted...)

The point about garbage collection isn't that you couldn't have
manual memory management for GType, but rather that it would be 
incredibly annoying.
					Owen